Cops: Albany woman crashed drunk into firehouse with stolen snake around her neck

Police say they have three extremely compelling arguments as to why Sarah Espinosa should not have been driving her Toyota Prius Monday night: She was drunk; she had marijuana in her car; and a python was coiled around her neck.

Inebriated with a snake she just stolen from a PETCO wrapped around her throat, Espinosa, police say, crashed her hybrid sedan into a fire station in New Hyde Park, a village on Long Island in Nassau County.

Espinosa is from Albany. The 22-year-old lives on South Main Avenue here, though police could not say why she was on Long Island.

Nassau County police did not speak with a reporter, but released a detailed narrative of how they say the bizarre incident unfolded.

Monday evening, Espinosa allegedly stole a “small ball python” from a PETCO store on Jericho Turnpike, part of State Route 25, which runs the length of Long Island.

Around 7 p.m., still driving on the turnpike, about 25 miles east of where she stole the snake, Espinosa lost control of her car, police said.

Espinosa’s car crossed over a median on the road, struck a Nissan Maxima and then went barrelling into the New Hyde Park Fire Station. The car stopped after colliding with a pair of fire trucks.

A photo published by Newsday shows Espinosa’s dark blue Prius having smashed through one of the firehouse’s garage doors.

Firefighters at the station ran to the car and found Espinosa with the snake around her neck, police said.

“They removed the snake from the defendant’s neck and secured it at the scene,” police wrote.